On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 07:59:37AM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> Since a fix for CVE-2022-24765 was released every git command is now
> checked against the context repo in which it's supposed to run
> resulting in a fatal error if the repo is owned by other user than the
> one running the git command.
> This means that in order to be able to do 'sudo make install', we have
> to set the 'safe.directory' for the root user. This is because QEMU
> runs 'git submodule update' automatically on 'make install'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
FWIW we could alternatively update the submodules manually, but we'd have list
them explicitly, IOW:
$ git clone qemu ...
$ cd qemu.git
$ scripts/git-submodule.sh ui/keycodemapdb dtc slirp
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure ... --with-git-submodules=ignore
$ make -jN && sudo make install
Erik
